The Democratic advocate. [volume] (Westminster, Md.) 1865-1972, 1887-08-13

2nrs..l IN undimini l1nt, pUurs out its water in
8hed stream. Parties have rugged
up portable tank containing GOO gallons.
They eli this at the well in about four minutes
and sell the tank full to the owners of wells
in the neighborhood which have gone dry at
So the tank-full.
A heavy storm passed over Franklin, Pa,
last Friday night, inundating the western part
of the city. A $4,000 barrel tank of oil, be-
longing to the Eel pse Oil Company, was fred
by flash of lightning, causing loss of $780,
600. Hugh Porter, Il fireman, was fatally in
iured by being accidentally hit on the head
by hose wrench. James Garfield and John
King were fatally burned, and several others
were seriously injured.
The prairie fire, which ragged near Manhat-
tan, Illinois, last week, was got under control
but broke out afresh in another place, and
swept over a thousand acres. One house was
destroyed. In some places the fame was
from twenty to thirty feet high, and the run
ming blaze an average of ten feet high. The
fire went faster than man could run. Every
body turned out to fight the fire, which was
finally subdued near Matteson.
Captain Richard Woofalk, wellknown
farmer, about twelve miles from Macon,
Georgia, his wife, six children and Mrs.
West, an aunt of Mrs. Woolfalk, were found
murdered in the house on Friday morning of
last week having been knocked in the head
aud their threats cut, Thomas g. Woolfalk,
son Of Captain Woolfalk by his first wife, was
arrested, and the Coroner's jury found yer.
diet of murder against him. His motive was
said to be the desire to gain possession of his
fathers property for himself and two sisters,
children of the first wife.
A romance In real life has occurred in the
town of Underhill, Vt. A Frenchman in an
adjoining town upon his death bed sent for
young woman, whom he had called his daugh-
ter, and confessed that she was not in reality
bound to him by any tie of relationship He
further stated that she was stolen from her
parents when quite young; that her surviving
relatives were well to do American people,
and gave substantial evidence to prove his
assertions. The lady was at once received
and acknowledged by her newly found rela-
tiges, and just share of inheritance was
made over TO her,
Near Etna, Penna., one day last week,
Mrs. Owen Hade left her four little children
In the house while she took her husbands
supper to him at a furnace, about mile
distant During her absence the eldest child
Edward, aged 8 years, took the oil can and
poured the fluid in the stove, as he had often
seen his mother doing when she started
FIRE. An explosion followed, and the four
children we're covered with the burning oil.
The neighbors rushed in and extinguished the
flames, but the youngest child, aged 1G
months, died in short time, and the other
three are not expected to recover.
A dispatch from Nogales, New Mexico,
says The sloop Sara left Mulejo on July 25th,
loaded with twenty tons of tap bark, The
vessel had on board Captain Abraham Ba-
jarm. his wife and children and niece, Super
tendent Halle, of the Baltimore Copper Mine
at Santa Rosa, and crew of five men.
While between San Pedro and Martinez, in
California, the vessel was struck by heavy
surf and oapsized. All on board peFiahed
except the captain and four sailors, who
saved themselves by climbing on the bottom
of the sloop. On July S0th two Of the sailors
became crazy and said they were going ashore.
As they plunged overheard they were de
voured by sharks The captain, one sailor
and o boy remained on the sloop for eight
days. sustaining life by catching turtles that
came near and sucking their blood. They
were rescued by the sloop Refuge.
Woodstock, N B., has been enjoying the
excitement of ghostly mystery. A despatch
from that place AYERS that between Saturday
morning and Sunday evening no less than As
unaecountable fires had broken out in the
house Of local picture frame dealer named
Hoyt, and nothing but inoessant vigilance and
effort saved the house from destruction.
These fires can be traced to no human agency,
and even the most skeptical are staggered.
Without premonition, and with no lamps
lighted or stoves in use, various articles would
burst into flames. Now it would be curtain
high up out of reach, then a bed quilt in an
other room would begin to smoke and smoul-
der, and, as if to still further nonplus the
theorists, carpet covered lounge was found
to be all aire underneath, among the jute
stretched above the springs. A child's dress
hanging on hook, a feather bed, and straw
mattress were ignited, and would have been
consumed but for water poured on them.
The villagers there believe the house haunted.